The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted math and a sea of volunteers. Coral reefs inspired the crochet exhibition “Austrian ...
Australian twins Margaret and Christine Wertheim have used incredible crochet techniques to put the fate of coral reefs in the public eye and more than a million have queued up to see it THE NEW ...
The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life. Installation view of ‘Crochet ...
A new book by Margaret and Christine Wertheim shows how art and math can go hand-in-hand in an explosion of colorful crocheted coral reefs. Margaret Wertheim in the Föhr Reef, Museum Kunst der ...
Groups of crochet enthusiasts—both students and Santa Cruz community members—have been meeting for student-led crochet circles. By following a surprisingly basic algorithm, but also varying and ...
It first catches your eye as a riot of color at the back of the hall, visible through a gap between a couple of other exhibits. You investigate, and it reveals itself as a wondrous mishmash of ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Organ pipes, honeycombs, the gills of mushrooms — corals form in a vivid polyphony of shapes and colors. One night in 2005, Australian artists and sisters Christine and Margaret ...
During her lifetime obsession with slippery hooks and fuzzy filaments, Kaye Boath has created beanies, tablecloths, "bed spreads, bed spreads and more bed spreads", and even a three-foot-tall giraffe.